Name switch dishonors Vietnam veterans

I just read that the U.S. Defense Secretary ordered the U.S. Army to rename Fort Moore back to its original name of Fort Benning. Our troops in Vietnam were given so few atta-boys, it's profoundly sad that this one is being taken away.

After serving as a combat nurse in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps in Vietnam, I came home to grab for the brass ring the Women's Liberation Movement offered me. I never looked back. Decades later, during the 1990s, the local chapter of Vietnam Veterans of America asked me to speak at a special event at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library. After I spoke, the three rows of disheveled looking men in the audience, all Vietnam vets who looked as if they were unable to successfully transition back into the civilian world, surrounded me. Each had to touch me somewhere - my back, shoulders, arms. One brushed his pointer finger over and over the back of my hand. A few had tears in their eyes. That incident drove home to me the fact that those men had almost no good memories about Vietnam, except the nurses.

But then Fort Benning was named after a true Vietnam hero, so Vietnam vets had another good memory. No more.